FOR THOSE WHO REFLECT .... [A Collection of Audio and Visual Khutbah's, Lectures, Poetry and Prose]
Set Thy Face With Sincerity Towards True Religion - Khutbah Notes
With The Name of Allah, The Merciful Benefactor, The Merciful Redeemer. We seek His Guidance in all matters and Thank Him for Prophet Mohammed, His Excellent Role Model for Humanity. We offer prayers and ask Peace be upon him.
Surah 10:105- “And further (thus): set thy face towards religion with true piety, and never in any wise be of the Unbelievers…”
Waan aqim wajhaka lilddeeni haneefanwala takoonanna mina almushrikeena
ﻮﺝﻬﻚ [Face Appears in Qur’an 29 times] [Whole Self Appears 4 times]
The Face:
Eyes, ( I ) Window to self, the window to the “ I “, perception, Registers information upside down, so must balance the incoming information with aid from the rational MIND. Sight not designed to work alone, needs help understanding the Light it receives from outside itself.
Nose:No Se = Spanish for I don’t know. English: No See or not seeing the material, that which cannot see on its own. Nose is able to work with invisible, spiritual matters, but works in conjunction with other senses. Eye registers material matters and Nose balances the material by adding the spiritual content of the material. Eye may observe something that appears to be good for the human being, but the nose registers the invisible odor that alerts it that the material is spoiled.
Mouth:
The mouth must be open to make intelligent speech. When closed can only make grunts and moans. There must be opportunity, freedom in order for the there to be true expression. The mouth Echoes the work of other agents. Sound is produced with the vocal chord in the larynx. The Mouth does not originate sound it is the vocal chords that vibrate and the mouth is like the echo chamber. They all work together, supporting each other to produce intelligent speech and other sounds. The mouth is the organ of expression for the minds creative products and emotions. The mouth is the messenger for the mind and body.
Ears:The ear works with the invisible but has at its center water. The inner ear in its conical form houses liquid that acts as a level giving balance to the human body. Eustachian tube contains a watery substance that maintains its balance inside the inner ear acting as a gyroscope and aids man in perceiving which way is upright and when he is falling or leaving the upright position.
One on the right and one on the left both act to keep man upright.
The organ which functions to receive sound like the spoken word is also the organ that helps man stand upright.
Head: The human head normally measures to be 1/7th of the body size, yet it takes for itself 50% of all the Sweetest substance in the body. The head utilizes approximately half of the sugar taken into and produced by the body. Under normal circumstances the head is the first to exit the womb when new life comes into the world. It is the out front as the baby beings to crawl and goes on top when the man stands up. The brain which is housed in the head acts as a clearing house for all the information collected by the senses and delivered to the brain. Even the information from the eyes that comes into the optic nerve in a reversed state is sorted, corrected and registered in its correct form by the action of the brain.
The brain is the work horse for the soul as the soul seeks its interest it is the brains function to collect the informational resources to bring into material reality the goals of the soul.
Hair: Agent for registering and transmitting feeling. A covering and padding of external material while increasing sensitivity to the presence of minute material or changes in the spiritual (invisible) space around us. Hair although dead at its extremes tips is able to communicate feelings and sensations due to being connected to life at its roots.
Surah 30:30
So set thou thy face steadily and truly to the Faith: (Establish) Allah's handiwork according to the pattern on which He has made mankind: no change (let there be) in the work (wrought) by Allah: that is the standard Religion: but most among mankind understand not. AL-Islam as it is read in Arabic "Led deene haneefan fetratal-laahel latee fataran naasa `alayhaa," translated it means AL-Islam is the religion of natural origin, the pattern on which He patterned human society. This religion believes in the excellence of nature and G-d created human beings to live up to and live out the excellence of nature that He created the human for; this is AL-Islam.
All Parts of the FACE have personal, social and spiritual expression Setting the Face or turning the Face to Allah and/or towards the symbols of unity of humanity (Kabbah) indicates that all aspects of the Face must be set, fixed, established, focused and utilized for a purpose pleasing to God.
Surah 4:47O ye People of the Book! believe in what We have (now) revealed, confirming what was (already) with you, before We change the face and fame of some (of you) beyond all recognition, and turn them hindwards, or curse them as We cursed the Sabbath-breakers, for the decision of Allah Must be carried out.
In Qur’an Allah Says of some people He will turn their faces backward, hindward or inside out. Reversing the Face means – that none of the facilities indicative of the aspects of the Face will be working for the best interest of the person. Reversing the Face is like making one deaf, dumb and blind.
(Start Quote) IWDM " So how do we get our unity back? G'd says, " So turn all of you your faces to this house." That house symbolized the unity of all people upon the pure human nature and excellent human model that G'd made, that's what that houses symbolizes. That house is a sign, a symbol for the unity of all people from Adam, all the human race, that's what it's a sign of. The Qur'an says, " If you turn your faces towards this Masjid, wherever you may be scattered G'd promises He will bring you together. So G'd has promises that he will bring us together no matter how distant we are from each other he will bring us together. All we have to do is turn our interest back to the common human life and human excellence that G'd created in all people or for all people if they haven't expressed it or realized it yet, that's what G'd says."
" The Kabah is the first home constructed for all people according to the Word of G'd in our Holy Book, the Qur'an, the Book of G'd to us for our life. In that Book G'd says that the first house for worship of G'd for all people is that house in Mecca in Arabic it is pronounced " Awwal al bait." And it is our Qiblah meaning that it is our center, we turn in that direction to make prayer and we also go in that direction or travel to that house to make Hajj to make pilgrimage." "Now, Al Kabtu Qiblate, so here is this house also Al Bait, that's another name for it Al Bait it means the house and Allah swt says that this house is "awwala bayten" the most ancient of houses or literally translated the first of the houses " buneya len Nas " built or constructed for all people. So you see the universality here? The 5th pillar of our religion Al Islam is the pillar of unity, the unity of the human family and it is also the pillar standing, I mean the symbol standing as a message giver, there is a message in it. It is standing as a message giver and it's message is that this is the original social nature that G'd gave Adam when he created Adam, therefore it is your true social nature. And it is the social nature that brings us, puts us first in a family picture that's the first picture of the social nature of man" " The Qiblah is called Qiblah and " Qibalah " means the place of the orientation, the center focus for our orientation. But "Qiblah" also means where the unfolding begins, the unfolding. Like you would have a book and you start to unfold the pages and the book starts on page one, well the Qiblah would be page one and you start unfolding the book. When you look with your imagination you can imagine the Qiblah during the Hajj and the unfolding that takes place with the Qiblah or Kaaba being the center and the people are responding to the Imam and when they rise from the sajdah the Imam first right? he's first. he gives the signal. He's giving the signal and it's a circle, a circle of people there at the Hajj time and they start unfolding with the Imam who stands in front of them. he's the first one and they just start unfolding like a rose or something or like a big flower right? Unfolding from the signal given in the center page one. The Kaaba starts page one. The signal from page one says "unfold” And then the leaves just unfold, open up. Now all over the earth this happens." (End Quote)
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